Companies who don’t define their driving force are missing the whole point.

There’s no I in team. It’s a cliche, but it’s true. And, while we all have things we’d rather do our way as an individual, the collective mind is more effective and more meaningful. At Monitive, it’s how we do business.

Ever wanted to keep a backup of StatusCake data without manual entry or usage of the API? This article will take you through a different and automated method of doing so for the Up and Down test alerts. This is done with the help of the Zapier service, and the data will be stored in Google Sheets.

Once upon a time… er… site, there was a company called Monitive that loved uptime monitoring, solving tough problems, and talking about big ideas.

This week we share articles covering Grafana’s alpha Explore UI, the many ways Logicify uses Grafana, building your own centralized monitoring stack, and more.

When there’s an incident, Grafana is often the starting point for figuring out a response. Users look at a time series panel and form a hypothesis. And in many situations, they’d like to dive deeper. To help make that easier, Grafana Labs has created the Explore UI, which allows you to iterate quickly through Prometheus queries, while leaving your dashboards intact.

One more article in Logicify Monitoring Tools series talks about Grafana, a software we use both for internal and external projects to visualize and analyze the data. The article could be of interest to CTOs, developers and DevOps, system administrators and Project Managers, and everyone interested.

Running your organization's infrastructure and understanding how services are performing a is key to ensuring every Dev and Ops team is running as efficiently as possible. The problem? Teams typically care about different metrics, so it can be hard to track the metrics you care about when they are not located on a central dashboard. Additionally, if these metrics are in central dashboard, it is often hard to dive deep and understand the root cause of your incidents and the performance of your team.